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Exploring Economic Inequality with Data

This set of assignments exposes students to data which can be used to analyze economic inequality in international and historical context. Then students are asked to generate a thesis-driven argument drawing supporting evidence from one or more of the data sources.

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Gini Coefficients, Economics, NSDL, Information Literacy, Mathematics, Economic Inequality, Quantitative Writing, Lorenz Curves, Teaching Communication, Education, Data Analysis, Writing

Disciplines:

Business / Economics

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Material Type:: Assignment
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 18, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 18, 2016
Author:: Nathan Grawe
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Language:: English
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